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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH. UTAH Bevolutionary Borrowing Over $500,000 in cash was borrowed by the United States during the last two years of the Revolutionary war, according to a study of Business Enterprise in the American Revolutionary Era issued by the Columbia University Press. Farm Topics USE OF POWER AIDS FARMERS Electrical Energy Provides Cheap Chore Boy. Finnish W omen V olunteer Services in Countrys Defense , P. BLACSER By I. Farm boys who reluctantly turn a fanning mill to clean grain probably will feel no better about that task when they hear that tests by agricultural engineers at Ohio State university indicate that five cents worth of electrical power will operate a mill long enough to clean 100 bushels of grain. on the fanning mill would be worth only a fraction of a cent an hour when compared with the expense of electrical energy. Rural homemakers also would fall into the class when doing the family washing because another five cents worth of electricity will turn out a big washing. Father places himself in the coolie class every time he milks the cows, because five cents worth of electricity will operate a milker while milking 20 cows. That would make the farmer milk four cows by hand for a cent. Most farmers would concede two or three cents an hour is a rather low wage for effort expended after a hard day in the fields. The servant that rides the power wires also will do other onerous farm tasks for five cents. Included in the nickel class are such jobs as turning a grind stone three hours, mixing two tons of feed, grinding Members of the Lotta Svard, womens auxiliary organization of Finland, are shown doing their part in 100 to 1,000 pounds of grain, shearrepelling the Bed invasion of their country. At the left a very young member of the highly trained organiza- ing 75 sheep, pumping 1,000 gallons tion prepares a ball of wool for knitting garments. Center: A cook presides over huge cauldrons in which of water, churning 100 pounds of soup is being cooked back of the front lines. Bight: Potatoes must be peeled, and another woman aids her butter, or washing 2,000 milk botcountry by performing that necessary task. tles. All these tasks can be done with power delivered through electric motors, as well as an additional 190 jobs which may cost more for power. Motors, ranging in size from horseto seven and one-ha- lf power are adapted for farm uses. Most power companies forbid the use of larger motors on rural lines. Boy-pow- er low-wa- ge Youthful Graduates Awarded Kindergarten Degrees one-sixtie- th Prices on tors may range from quarter-hors- e power $6 to $18, mode- pending on the type. The size of the motor to use, of course, depends on the size of the task to be done. Household tasks and many farm chores fall within the province of the small inexpensive motors. Real work such as running a silage cutter requires sizes toward the upper limit permitted on rural lines. " Freak, Hunting Death Harold Strain, Gold Beach, Ore., hunter, was killed by a bullet that had passed through and1 killed a deer. Strain was standing in the line of fire when his hunting partner, not knowing he was there, fired the fatal shot. ""I Land, Labor Are Saved By Good Farm Layout . Labor efficiency has always been the keynote of American agriculture. American farmers have wasted land, but they have harvested a larger yield to the worker, or to the than any other farmers in the world. They have economized in labor, which was scarce, and have wasted land, which was plentiful. The future problems of American farmers include a better use of land, a greater intensity of cultivation, and, at the same time, the maintenance of a high productivity of the individual worker. A farm layout offers one means of saving land and labor. A good farm layout should provide not only an efficient field arrangefarmment, but also a stead, economical fences, convenient lanes and driveways, and the most profitable use of land. These are statements of Prof. W. I. Myers, head of the department of agricultural economics at Cornell university. Many New York farms of today need rearranging, he says, because of changes in agricultural conditions, the use of more machinery, the need for larger and less irregular fields, and similar requirements. Tough Montana Hombre When an unknown but tough hombre dropped a nickel in the1 telephone of a drug store at Butted Mont., and got the wrong number,1 he promptly drew out his and blasted away at the mouthpiece,1 six-shoot- er British White Paper The official reports or communiques issued by the British government periodically are known as Blue Books. Occasional reports, which1 usually are not so extensive, are called White Papers. No Local Tax Levy Milton, Wash., has adopted a budget for the next year that contains no local tax levies. The town will operate on liquor and highway; funds allocated by the state. Noncompetitive Imports More than half the value of U. S. imports of agricultural products is in noncompetitive items like coffee, tea, cocoa, raw silk, rubber, bananas, spices. Agricultural Note Vetches producing from two to three tons of dry plants per acre would add from 150 to 200 pounds of nitrogen to the soil if turned under. North Carolina Cigarettes Of the 160 billion cigarettes manufactured annually in the United States, approximately 86 billions are produced in North Carolina. Postal Savings U. S. The postal savings system has more than 2,700,000 depositors, with balances to their credit of over $1,262,000,000. Largest Quicksand Area Diamond shoals, off Cape Hat-tera- world. Texas Sour Grapes? grapevine in Rosebud, Texas, covers the entire side of a building and is half a block long. A single Reversed Bill of Fare formal Japanese dinners, sweets are served first, and sour pickles last. At U. S. Milk Production Seventy per cent of the 7,000,000 United States farms produce milk. unit-of-lab- boys and girls who graduated Wearing cap and gown just as college graduates do, five and from the cloistered academic halls of the kindergarten into public schools are pictured in .the daisy-chai- n processional that opened colorful ceremonies in the auditorium of the childrens aid society center, New York. Seventeen girls and twelve boys were in the graduating class. ld rllO CHASER HEEDED ; is well-plann- ed Persistent Suitor Congratulations! From Adolf to Herman well-plann-ed SS ' v. ?, wars ptbi N - V PINT No. 64 Farm Notes The annual production of honey and beeswax in the United States is valued at $100,000,000. Asphalt shingles that tend to lift when the wind blows can be fastened down with roof putty placed on the underside. When Haywood S. Kirby, student at Harvard university in Cambridge, Mass., failed to get a date with a Badcliffe college freshman, Field Marshal Herman Goering, right, receives a vigorous handshake he decided to take necessary steps. Beichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler in congratulation of Goerings ' from to was to refusal go answer her His sitdown strike within birthday. Hitler made a flying trip to Goerings estate outside on a tree-to- p to offer his personal congratulations. The field marshal is head Berlin of the girls dormitory plain sight window until she decided to give him of the German armys air force, and is said to have been named by Hitler as his successor in the event of his death. a date. forty-seven- th 9 Cows spend eight out of the 24 hours in actual grazing; the remaining 16 hours are passed in resting and chewing the cud. Sweet potato starch, now advancing out of the experimental stage, is rated better than the imported root starches which Americans have been using at the rate of 400,000,000 pounds a year. s, are said to comprise the largest area of quicksand in the N. C., ; TBiS WHISKEY IS 4 YEARS OLD 90 PROOF COM. 140, THI OID QUAKU COM ANT, LAWKINCfMJirO, INDIANA |